S4E4 - 18 Months Left to "Close the Gap": Beware, the Water Clock is Ticking! - a podcast by Antoine Walter

from 2021-11-17T04:00

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with 🎙️ Mina Guli, CEO and Co-Founder of the Thirst Foundation, Director of the Antarctic Science Foundation, Director of the Global Water Partnership and Adventurer. 


💧 The Thirst Foundation is dedicated to getting the global water crisis to the top of the agenda and driving innovation to use less water every day.




What we covered: 




🏃‍♀️ How Mina Guli ran across 7 deserts on 7 continents in 7 weeks to raise awareness on Water Scarcity   


🏃‍♀️ How she completed 40 marathons in 40 days and started a 100 marathons in 100 days series, then broke her leg in #62 


🍏 How her bringing the "Close the Gap" message across to 4 billion people is proof that we're all capable of doing anything 


📚 How the Water Crisis is the story of People, and how we shall get them heard 


🍏 How we must find a way to accelerate action to Close the Gap 


🙋 How we need to put water onto the global agenda 


🌎 How the UN Conference on Water in 2023 is our opportunity to move the needle and Close that Gap 


💪 How there's Jeff Bezos, the Pope... and Mina on Fortune Magazine's list of the 50 greatest leaders in the World 


🍎 How regardless of where you are on earth, Water Scarcity will impact you through the goods you consume 


🍎 How if we don't care, there's always going to be something more important or simpler than water to put on a corporate agenda 


🍏 How the right scale to ignite action might be the companies, as they are quick to act when something impacts their supply chains or their bottom line 


🍏 How Water is the main ingredient in everything we grow or manufacture, and how it's not as simple as water price equals water value 


💪 How individually you can have an impact but together we can change the World 


🧮 People filling in for Marathons 63 to 100, Agriculture as a key battlefield, the role of individuals, regulators, and policymakers... and much more!


🔥 ... and of course, we concluded with the 𝙧𝙖𝙥𝙞𝙙 𝙛𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙦𝙪𝙚𝙨𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 🔥 




➡️ Get the Full Story (including an infographic and full transcript) here: https://dww.show/18-months-left-to-close-the-gap-beware-the-water-clock-is-ticking/

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